MINUTES OF TIE BOARD OF TRUSTEES   -   December 13, 1910



annex to the existing school of physical training for women, providing massage and

orthopedic treatment for both sexes under the supervision of Mirs. Stout, with a

competent assistant, an M. D., and a certified graduate of a first-class school of

instruction, should receive the careful consideration of this board.  An orthopedic

department is one lwhich provides treatment of a special kind for abnormal subjects.

Not a few irregularities of the bones find their only cure in the application of

medical gymnastics and massage.   Many children with congenital deformities or in-

juries received when young remain so throughout life, because their parents cannot

afford to take them to expensive specialists.   There is in Kentucky today but one

orthopedic department, where physicians can send such cases.   It is in Louisville

and has as its head a man who besides having the degree of doctor of medicine, is a

graduate of a standard school of gymnastics.   It is said that he is doing great

good and that nothing could persuade him to leave it.  W.hy not have another such

department in Lexington?   Every intelligent physician would endorse such an enter-

prise.

      "Tthese facts I have not hitherto communicated to any person.  Some weeks ago

I invited Judge Barker to a conference, in order to submit to him the facts that I

had gathered and the opinions based thereon, in order that a joint report might be

made. He, however, for reasons satisfactory to himself, declined to have anything

to do with this report. Under these circumstances, I felt that all that was left

for me to do was to make a report myself, placing before the Board the facts which I

had gathered and the opinions based thereon.

                                           "Respectfully submitted,

                                           (Signed)  lawes K. Patterson."

    Mir. Stoll moved that the report be received and filed.   Seconded and unanimously

carried.